do they still make a descrambler for scanners anymore
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Yes, the ss-70c from ramsey.com is one.
SS70C - Speech Scrambler/Descrambler Kit - Ramsey Electronics
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n9zas
SS70C - Speech Scrambler/Descrambler Kit - Ramsey Electronics
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n9zas
Pretty much, it just installs in the audio line between the scanner and the speaker BUT.....what is it you're trying to descramble?
These will ONLY work with single inversion scrambling, NOT digital encryption of any kind!
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n9zas
The frequency they're on doesn't matter. When they are scrambled does it sound like "donald duck"? If not, then you're not going to be able to descramble the signal because it's a digital format.
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Does it sound something like this?
http://www.kb9ukd.com/digital/P25-nontrunk.wav
I once lived in an area where the local PD made a big deal about announcing on their dispatch channel when they were "going encrypted" All they did was switch to P25 and with receive set to auto on my 996 I didn't even have to press a button to hear the traffic, but the rest of my non P25 scanners were out of luck. If it's not P25 there's a few other digital modes that sound like static, that may be worth using a discriminator tap and some software to at least ID what it is, even if you can't hear it you'll understand what's going on radio wise.
http://www.kb9ukd.com/digital/P25-nontrunk.wav
I once lived in an area where the local PD made a big deal about announcing on their dispatch channel when they were "going encrypted" All they did was switch to P25 and with receive set to auto on my 996 I didn't even have to press a button to hear the traffic, but the rest of my non P25 scanners were out of luck. If it's not P25 there's a few other digital modes that sound like static, that may be worth using a discriminator tap and some software to at least ID what it is, even if you can't hear it you'll understand what's going on radio wise.
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Like Donald duck.
Here's a list with a whole bunch of digital modes, where I got the first link from:
Digital Modes Samples
This static you will not be able to listen to:
http://www.kb9ukd.com/digital/des.wav
This would be donald duck:
http://www.kb9ukd.com/digital/F1-EU-1-Voice-Inversion.wav
mule1075
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I think all you need is a digital trunk tracking scanner going by your location i am seeing this in database for the freq you listed now check out the 2nd link under the first one they might have went to the Palmetto 800 system.Not sure if it helps but just throwing it out their.
Union County, South Carolina (SC) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=429
Union County, South Carolina (SC) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=429
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To answer the second part of the OP's question...
Descramblers were outlawed in the USA in 1996, but don't try to tell that to anybody who thinks they have a good excuse to own one.
Descramblers were outlawed in the USA in 1996, but don't try to tell that to anybody who thinks they have a good excuse to own one.
Very true, but yet we still are able to buy them and even handheld talkies which include them.
Kind of pointless...
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...then it's digital encryption and you'll have to get used to it or lock it out.
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